Getting through my Yule-tide book acquisition

How do I classify this? Addiction? Masochistic drive? Self-annihilation impulse? Foolish optimism?

Yes, I bought Blood Noir and Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K Hamilton’s newest books in the Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series.

I know, I know. Why do I keep trying? The first few books in the series were so very good. It is tragic, truly tragic, that they have devolved as much as they have. I wouldn’t mind so much if she had started out writing poorly-disguised porn, but the fact she has written such brilliant novels in the past just makes it all the more depressing.

To try and soften to blow (and with a due sense of dread) I read Swallowing Darkness first. After all, the Merry Gentry series has never been anything but a pornfest so how can I be disappointed?

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Getting through my Yule-tide book acquisition #2

Oh dear. I think I left Swallowing Darkness on top of Blood Noir and all the porn leaked from one to the other.

Blood Noir is everything I hate in the later Anita Blake novels. It manages to actually be worse than Harlequin - which is saying something. Harlequin was dire but had plot (small plot, badly damaged, crying because it was lonely, but it was there). Bloode Noir doesn't even have that much

It’s not just the unnecessary number of sex scenes, it’s just about all the issues surrounding sex as well that is driving me mad now.

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